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...is a Project Manager?
1.What skills does he/she require to become a good project manager?
A project manager is an inventive problem-solver, team-builder and steady leader in the organization. Project Manager should have technical as well as management skills. Project Manager is responsible for the administration of the contract within the agreed terms and conditions. He has overall responsibility for completion within time and budget. A single point of contact for formal communication between Organization and Client, he is responsible for ensuring that the organization remains responsive to the Client’s requirements.
2.What are Hard & soft skills? Name at least 10 of each?
The best Project Manager would have the deep understanding and ability to accomplish the following:
Hard Skills
Structured Project Plan
Work Breakdown Structure
Project schedule
Dependency network
Define resource requirements
Manage and monitor Budget
Manage and monitor project plan
Preparing of various achievement reports
Establish, implement and manage Configuration management, documentation management, product management,.
Establish and implement team culture within his assigned project
Soft Skills
Should identify communication channels and have excellent communication skills
Should establish mutual...

...efforts to satisfy the higher needs should be postponed. Once a need is satisfied it loses its capacity to induce the man to work. Only unsatisfied needs or fresh needs can motivate persons to work.
As soon as the lower level needs are satisfied. Those on the next higher level emerge. Thus, he considered an individual’s motivation behaviour as a predetermined order of needs. According to Maslow, the basic human needs are set in a hierarchy as follows:
1. Physiological Needs.
2. Security and safety Needs
3. Social Needs
4. Esteem or ego needs
5. Self – actualization needs.
2. Define Management By Objectives.
According to John Humble - Management By Objectives or “MBO is a dynamic system which integrates the company’s need to achieve its goals for profit and growth, with the manager’s need to contribute and develop himself.”
In other words, MBO is a dynamic system of management; it recognizes the need of the manager to achieve and to grow on the job and it integrates the individual needs and the organisational needs.
George Oriorne - “MBO is a system wherein the superior and the subordinate manager of an organisation jointly define its common goals, define each individual’s major areas of responsibility in terms of the results expected of him and use these measures as guides for operating the unit and assessing the contribution of each of its members.”
According to Reddin, the MBO system means:
Each manager...

...﻿1. Problems Identified
1.1 Structural Strategy
1. No proper project structure - this made the execution and management of the project very ineffective.
2. Project over budget – The project estimated cost overrun of atleast 20%
3. Poor leadership/no leadership commitment - the customer requested the Divisional GM and his team to present the status of the project. However the DGM instructed Reichart to go with any other 3 or 4 functional managers
4. No Balanced Scorecard with critical success factors, including continuous review and appraisal processes.
5. Lack of a sufficient Guiding Coalition - no support from other functional managers
6. There is no control over functional managers - Reichart did all the work himself due to the lack of communication and the imbalance of power between the project managers and functional managers.
7. There are no policies and procedures in place - Top management failed to implement processes and policies based on programme and projectmanagementprinciples. This indicate a poor leadership approach
8. No proper resource allocation - Reichart did not have adequate resources(people) that could have stay at required pace or make up for the time already lost in the projectmanagement
9. There was a lack of projectmanagement in the...

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Project Charter
Colorado Spring Welcome Home Parade
QI CHEN
ProjectManagement
January 24, 2015
Abstract
This project charter is planned to help O’Donnell & O’Donnell LLP who will lead the projectmanagement team take place the parade smoothly. This parade for welcoming home troops will be organized in Colorado Spring which has a long history of military. This project charter’s goal is making sure projectmanagement team and sponsors understand all details and tasks of this parade and getting an agreement between these two parties. Some important tasks can be directed with the project charter. For examples, raising fund, arranging thousands of soldiers and planning a lunch for people are some necessary tasks during this parade.
Project Charter:
Colorado Spring Welcome Home Parade
Scope Overview
The scope overview is the project in a nutshell: a high-level description of what needs to be accomplished and how it will be done. (Kloppenborg,2012).
This projectmanagement team lead by O’Donnell & O’Donnell LLP will create some plans about how to carry out the parade according to interdepartmental suggestions. These plans will contains fund...

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PROJECTMANAGEMENT
Foreword
Project is designed to produce a result of giving birth of a products, a service or an improvement with a definite beginning and ending and given the clear goal and objectives. I order to successfully implement a project, planning, organizing, motivating, controlling resources, procedure are the process and activity designed to meet a specific goals. There are 2 challenges of projectmanagement process: its constraints including scope, time, quantity and budget and the ultimate goals of optimizing the allocation of the given resources to produce the best results. These theories about projectmanagement are supposed to help managers have a clear imagination about what they have to do to produce the best result in practice. However , in practice, when it comes to projectmanagement, things are more complicating. The procedure is redesigned, modified in different ways to match the project characteristics, or some steps needs to be focused more or ignored or adjusted. The difference between theory and application should be minimized to produce the desired effects.
In this report, the author is going to try to cope with an imaginary situation and execute all the theories in projectmanagement subjects to come up with a proper procedure to...

...﻿MGT8022 PROJECT-BASED MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT 3 MARK SHEET (Revision 2)
Student name
Fiza Akhtar
Student number (00)
0061042483
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THE ROLE OF PROJECTMANAGEMENT IN TODAY’S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT.
What is ProjectManagement?
When we describe the term Projectmanagement it is the art of taking uncertainty and transforming it into certainty (near). The process and activities are planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems. Efficient and effective teams with a leader that can encourage cooperation and motivate to get outcome as all are working toward the same goal. It is in everyone’s best attention to work together to the works success.
What is the Role of ProjectManagement in Today’s Business Environment?
When we think about today’s business environment there is an intense competition between the firms. According to my opinion projectmanagement is vital because of the budgets and resources are limited and time constraints are very strict. Therefore in order to achieve an advantage over competing firms, efficiency and success of each and every project is very important.
The great ability of projectmanagement makes it possible to focus on priorities, track and measure performance, overcome challenges and...